Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-04-23
SATURDAY, APRIL 23,1887.
GRANT PITZER. ......-Loeal Editor
SEVERAL frosts fell this week.

SEVERAL frosts fell this week.
SEE FL. S. Hydes new advertisement
thisweek.
CLEAN up, clean up, both in town
and country.
Now for the garden and the white
WASH brigades.
SEE the new goods at Hydes Jewelry
Store also the best watches made. ct
FAREWELL, o oyster thy days will
soon be numbered MIR. crab will usurp
thy place
FASHION has outdone herself this
year in hideousness of millinery enor-
mites.
THE side streets are made noisy by
embryo base-balIsts. Tops and mar
bles next.
DIR, Casper Jones will open drug
store in Charlestown, soon. We wish
him prosperity.
''MoRE rum more rum ~" was the
chorus the water frogs sang last week
along the creeks.
LoTs of fine specimen of suckers have
been caught in the Opequon by hook
and line, the past week.
Mr.. GEORGE BELL held the lucky
number that drew the Silver Cup
at the rink Saturday night.
AS soon as j. B. Kerfoot finishes
the new plat of the Norbone Cemetery,
the lots will be placed on sale.
BRO RoBT. BURKHART, isn't IA
just a little strong? So you thought it
fifteen, eh? Well, it might have been.
THE premature straw hat took sud-
den tumble into the closet, because of
the cool weather of Sunday and Mon
day.
Mr.. DALLUs HULL. of Hedgesville
left for the insane asylum at Weston
last Tuesday night, where he will act as
Steward.
WHEN Spring gets her new dress of
green, with golden dandelions and the
bIue-eyed violets for buttons, won't she
put on airs ?
DER vas vone leetle Yerman band
dot cum avrounn dis week. Der mus
lex vas sweet, and We feel so very sorry
ven dey go right away, quick.
Mr.. Charles Seibert has put 10 per
cent advancement on bid of Miss Nellie
Bowers for the Snodgrass farm. The
property must therefore be resold.
THE small boy with awe in every line
of his face and a wild yearning in the
deepest recesses of his heart, silently
inspects Forepaugh's circus posters.
MR.. III. MCDOWELL is making con-
siderable improvements on his dwell
ing. He is enlarging the rear, and roof
ing the whole with slate.
r. w. GREER is giving Red Front
another coat of paint. This time it is
the regulation, West Virginia, stand
ard color. He has the boss vegetables
on the market
SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN has pre-
sented to the "Sherman Invinciblesn a
handsome and costly picture of himself.
The gift is greatly appreciated by the
earnest young politicians.
People who go to an entertainment
should remember that good BREEDING
and manners never allow lady or gen.
tleman to make fun at the expense of
the performers.
TUscARoRA CREEK received into it's
icy depths on last Sunday, eight color
ed persons. A large crowd witnessed
the baptism ceremonies, and some say
sins were seen floating the stream in
chunks.
SAY, Brother Colston, let up about
Republicans not taking Democratct
papers. We are a coal-black-unregene
MISUNDERSTANDING republican and
of the four papers which grace our
home libary three are rampantly DEM
ocratic. So. go steady.
THEY say our good-looking Sheriff
admires the serene and peaceful pre-
cincts of Burke Street. Friend DUN
ford, winks at friend Hollis, and friend
Hollis at friend Sencindiver-then they
all burst out laughing, while the Sher-
ifs face wears mystifed look